Two-year-old filly Nour came out running in her career debut, winning a 5 ½-furlong race at Gulfstream Park on Friday to become the first starter and first winner for Walmac’s multiple graded stakes winner Core Beliefs.
Owned by Sultan Racing LLC and trained by Tareq Moubarak, Nour overcame a slow start but quickly moved into contention and tracked the early pace from the outside under jockey Luca Panici. Swinging four wide around the far turn, she collared the leaders at the head of the lane and finished with determination to prevail at the wire.
A graduate of both the Keeneland January Sale and the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale in 2024, Nour, who was bred in Indiana by Aymen Inkeep, is out of the winning Candy Ride (ARG) mare Dandy Candy. This is also the family of multiple graded stakes winner Mom’s On Strike, an earner of $594,550, and graded stakes winners Love That Jazz and Fight for Love.
A son of perennial leading sire Quality Road, Core Beliefs registered the biggest win of his racing career in the $400,000 New Orleans Handicap (G2) at four, beating graded stakes winners Silver Dust, Lone Sailor, Copper Bullet, and Noble Indy. He jumped on the Kentucky Derby trail early in his 3-year-old season, finishing second in the Santa Anita Derby (G1) in his stakes debut before going on to win the $500,000 Ohio Derby (G3) at Thistledown, defeating Lone Sailor, Title Ready, and Flameaway. All told, he won or placed in 10-of-18 lifetime starts, banking $953,988 for owner Gary Broad, who acquired Core Beliefs for $350,000 at the 2017 Barretts Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale.
Produced from the winning Tactical Advantage mare Tejati, Core Beliefs hails from the family of Pin Oak’s Sovereign Award winner Hasten to Add and Grade 1 winner See How She Runs. For more information on Core Beliefs, visit www.walmacfarm.com, or call (859) 554-5151.